Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Homelessness up in Oxford (From Oxford Mail)

Homelessness up in Oxford (From Oxford Mail)

More people have become officially homelesss in Oxford, new figures have revealed.

Oxford City Council statistics show 163 households have been forced to live in temporary accommodation in the city since April, compared to 156 over the whole of the 2010/11 financial year.

A report put before the city executive board said: “There has been a massive downturn in the availability of the private rented market to us, with many landlords no longer willing to take housing benefit clients, and a very buoyant private rental market, with many households renting instead of joining the property market.”

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